First Certificate Gold - Coursebook [antikvár]

Exam information Overview The Cambridge First Certificate Examination in English consists of five papers. Each paper tests a different area of your ability in English and is worth twenty per cent of your total result. After you take the exam you will receive a grade: A, B and C are pass grades; D and E are fail grades. Paper 1 Reading This paper contains four parts. Each part has at least one text with a task. There is a total of 35 questions. A variety of types of texts may be used, including letters, advertisements, extracts from works of fiction, newspaper articles and information from brochures. You will have 1 hour and 15 minutes to answer all the questions. Part 1: Multiple matching You match headings or summary sentences to each paragraph of a text. There are 6/7 questions and an example (0) at the beginning. (See similar tasks on pp. 36-37: pp. 58-59; pp. 130-131.) Part 2: Multiple choice You choose between four alternatives to answer questions or complete statements about a text. There are 7/8 questions. (See Exam Focus pp. 64-65 and similar tasks on p. 89 and p. 157.) Part 3: Gapped text Sentences or paragraphs have been removed from a text. You decide where in the text these sentences or paragraphs should be placed. There are 6/7 gaps in the text but 7/8 sentences or paragraphs. The first gap is an example (0). (See similar tasks on pp. 22-23, pp. 68-69, p. 85, pp. 98-99 and pp. 120-121 and Exam Focus on pp. 114-115.) Part 4: Multiple matching You read a text divided into sections and then answer specific questions about each section. There are 13-15 questions and an example (0) at the beginning. (See Exam Focus on pp. 10-11 and a similar task on p. 92.) Paper 2 Writing In this paper you have two tasks. You will have 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the two tasks and you will be required to write between 120 and 180 words for each task. Part 1 is compulsory and requires you to write a 'transactional' letter based on information and prompts. (See example on p.20 Exam focus, and model text with notes in Writing Reference p. 179.) In Part 2 you have a choice from four tasks. These will be a selection of the following: • a letter, which could include a 'letter of application' (See example on p. 12 Writing, and model texts with notes p. 181 and p. 184.) • an article (See example on p. 126 Exam focus, and model text with notes p. 183.) • a report (See example on p. 73 Exam focus, and model text with notes p. 182.) • a discursive composition (See example on p. 158 Writing, and model text with notes p. 185.) • a descriptive composition (See example on p.81 Writing, and model text with notes p. 186.) • a short story (See example on p.44 Writing, and model text with notes p. 180.) • a composition, article, report or letter on one of the background reading texts (See example on p.51 Writing, and model text with notes p. 186.) Paper 3 Use of English This paper contains five parts with a total of 65 questions. You will have 1 hour and 15 minutes to answer all the questions. The five different parts are as follows: Part 1: this consists of a multiple choice cloze text. This is a text with 15 gaps, followed by 15 four-option multiple choice questions. The focus is on vocabulary. (See example on p. 143 Use of English and p. 106 Exam Focus.) Part 2: this consists of an open cloze text. This is a text with 15 gaps which you must fill with an appropriate word. The focus is on grammar and vocabulary. (See example on p. 135 Exam focus.)